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Terracina
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular
geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Terracina is a town and comune of the province of Latina, Italy, 76 kilometers Southeast of Rome by rail and 56 kilometers by the Via Appia. Area of Terracina is 136 per square kilometers. Its population in 2004 was 42,475 and density is 258 per square kilometers.
Terracina appears in ancient sources with two names the Latin Tarracina and the Volscian Anxur. The latter is the name of Jupiter himself as a youth, and was the tutelary god of the city, venerated on the Mons Neptunius where a temple dedicated to him still exists. Terracina occupied a position of notable strategic importance. It is located in fact at the point where the Volscian Hills an extension of the Lepini Mountains reach the coast, leaving no space for passage between them and the sea, in a site commanding the Pontine Marshes, a city flat in the marshes, as Livy called it and possessing a small harbour.
There are many famous sights in the Terracina. The Cathedral of SS. Pietro e Cesareo Duomo is ensconced within a temple of Rome and Augustus, part of the side wall of which, with engaged columns, is still visible. The holy edifice was consecrated in 1074, and renovated in the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. The Temple of Jupiter Anxur and The modern Palazzo Comunale of Terracina. The Terracina railway station is not on the main Rome-Naples railway line. Travellers may use either the station of Priverno-Fossanova or that of Monte San Biagio. Terracina is said the place of best geographical environment and can trace its origins back to prehistoric times. It enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers.
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